Federal litigation has concluded over toxic contamination at a now-closed Florida migrant detention site for children. The children were exposed to arsenic and lead, among other harms, according to documents released as part of the litigation.

Child Migrants Exposed to Toxic Contamination at Florida Detention Site - Inside Climate News

The contamination is detailed in documents made public as part of federal litigation over the now-closed facility. Advocates say it fits a pattern of migrant incarcerations in harmful environments.

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Inspired by the summer film and Discourse, some freshman are going to show up to register for classes in Ancient Greek and Ancient History only to find that those courses and faculty no longer exist.

Hidden Barriers: The Experience of Academic Librarians and Archivists with Invisible Illnesses and/or Disabilities. A good article with a good list of resources at the end of it. crl.acrl.org/index.php/cr... Learn about this flag. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disabil... #DisabilityPride

"Lost" manuscript which is cataloged, digitized, and available for anyone to read just sitting around on the open internet: archives.yale.edu/repositories...

Colleen T@librarycolleen.bsky.social · 3w ago

Lost, “unpublished and forgotten in a U.S. archive.” Uff. Here is a particularly egregious “discovery” trope about publishing a previously preserved and described item from the Beinecke. The item sounds exciting but, ugh. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

Jon Lovitz & Victoria Jackson: Over-the-top Acting

ALT: Jon Lovitz & Victoria Jackson: Over-the-top Acting

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Danielle Terrazas Williams@drdanielletw.bsky.social · 2w ago

Job Opportunity! The Department of History at the University of Washington invites applications for an acting assistant professor, specializing in the Ancient Mediterranean World, with an anticipated start date of December 2026, or a mutually agreeable date. networks.h-net.org/jobs/70159/u...

Centennial of a Metaphor: July 23, 1926. Shot in Cottage Grove, Oregon. Real train, real fire, real river, real bridge, real funny. #BusterKeaton #TheGeneral #NoAI

Just had a version of this conversation with @hpsvanessa.bsky.social. In short, the "future is agrarian" is nice, but has caveats like time, labor, money, knowledge transfer, space/land, predictable weather patterns, able backs/knees, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=32kQ...

This Is a Gardening Show | Official Trailer | Netflix

YouTube video by Netflix

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"don't cite what you haven't read" remains the basic entry level academic responsibility; & if your discpline "doesn't have that as a norm" then sorry, your discipline needs reforming for this new world. Citations are structural parts of trust and knowledge building, not trinkets or optional extras

Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.

😱😭JONAS!😱😭

Tour de France Hommes@letour.stadio.top · 2w ago

🇫🇷 #TDF2026 Jonas Vingegaard has been forced to withdraw from the Tour de France after crashing towards the end of Stage 15. We will provide an update on his condition as soon as more information becomes available.

Furious that Chris Nolan would disregard historical accuracy in adapting The Odyssey by making a "movie" with "cameras" instead of memorizing the entire story and then going on a nationwide tour to sing it to us while tripping on ergotized barley

OVERHEARD at EDI airport: USian to Scotsman: "When we flew over northern England, there was nothing there." Scotsman: "It is rural. It is not empty." USian: "There's nothing there! You could build so many more cities there!"

From @batsyhead.bsky.social:

If you have a public IG account with family photos: www.wired.com/story/meta-n...

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir@hildur.bsky.social · 4w ago

I went on @sleyhousepresents.bsky.social to talk about Dead Weight, writing, horror, the best ways to kill bad men and hide their bodies – just some silly girl stuff, really 💅💋

"If the dogs are for us, who can be against us?" IG: ahistoryofdogs

👏👏👏👏👏

mitchell atencio (he·him·his)@mitchellatencio.com · 2mo ago

shout out whoever at Reuters wrote this headline. sojo.net/articles/new...

Aww I wanted Larry to be real Source: www.facebook.com/cat.overlord... Confirmed as AI-generated using: openai.com/research/ver...

Jon Phillips@jowiph.bsky.social · last mo.

I would kill or die for Larry

"Tailgate diplomacy"

The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.

Fans from around the globe have traveled to experience the FIFA World Cup, with many also getting their first taste of an American sports tradition: tailgating before kickoff.

Birdsong & the richness we’ve laid (are laying) waste to. An astonishing, heartbreaking demonstration of shifting baseline syndrome, & what I remember. Wrote about this @environment.theguardian.com + a real recording made in my village by a fierce & wonderful woman conservationist in 1975. 1/3

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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NiCHE Canada@nichecanada.bsky.social · last mo.

"Coal miners, more than most other professions, knew that each day going underground was a matter of life or death." - @drheathergreen.bsky.social and Kaley MacMullin niche-canada.org/2026/01/02/f... #envhist #cdnhist #histmed #mininghistory #labour

He's going to stay another year just to spite Nina.

Ohh: Surprised Cat

ALT: Ohh: Surprised Cat

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this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.

A fifth of Leave voters have died.

A Logan Square barbershop owner raised $10,000 for a Mexican folk dance studio whose young students and families were harassed and battered in a viral video. blockclubchi.co/4emS7kK

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Why This Megacity Bans Cars Every Sunday

YouTube video by Evan Edinger

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This data center menaces #NewMexico.

Jenn@jennburrill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

One of the largest data centers in the country is rising from the desert of southern New Mexico. At 1,400 acres, it could swallow New York's Central Park While there might be enough land, there isn't enough water. Locals concerned Project Jupiter will destroy the chile & pecan farming ✏️ @npr.org

✨What Juneteenth Means to Me as a Physician Juneteenth reminds me that freedom has always been tied to health. At the time, freedom was declared, but not delivered and that gap between promise and reality still shows up today. Thread. 1/